“This…”
Su An’s mouth opened slightly. Combined with some of the bullet comments, she finally understood the punchline.
The analysis of the joke:
The male guest lied and lied until he ended up deceiving himself.
This guy probably just wanted to find a companion at first, but he ended up falling for it, drowning in the beautiful romance the model had fabricated for him.
He had gone so far as to selectively forget that all of this was merely a virtual emotion generated by the model based on his own thoughts.
‘It feels like a deliberately written script,’ Su An thought, for some reason.
‘And then there is that Secret Key.’
Through her clothes, Su An’s finger lightly touched her navel. It was almost identical to a human’s, except it lacked any lint or grime.
‘If I could steal that Secret Key…’
Su An was afraid that the walls had ears, so she did not say the words aloud, but her mind was already beginning to calculate.
She knew this was somewhat unfair to Gu Yu, but she could work to pay her back!
Given her current small physique — thin and weak, essentially a useless but pretty doll — she probably was not worth that much.
While Su An was lost in thought, Jing Jing slowly flew inside.
Its speed was not fast as it stopped in front of Su An’s eyes and said, “Miss An’an, your Da Congming Bracelet has arrived. Please wait a moment.”
“Okay!”
‘Da Congming? What kind of brand name is that? It does not sound like a compliment,’ Su An grumbled inwardly.
Ding!
Following a notification sound, the villa’s main door slowly opened.
An egg-shaped robot with a somewhat cute appearance raised its tracks and stepped over the threshold.
Two mechanical tentacles extended from its egg-like body, holding a delicate package.
“Its name is Yuanyuan, and it is responsible for transporting small goods,” Jing Jing explained while floating in the air.
Yuanyuan did not come over immediately.
Instead, it went through the effort of changing into new tracks at the entrance, which was quite meticulous.
However, Su An’s gaze was drawn more toward the open door.
The lush green small courtyard made it feel as though she could smell the scent of freedom the moment she stepped out.
Su An was itching to move, but after her gaze brushed against the high walls of the yard and the even more complex and towering main gate, her enthusiasm was instantly doused with cold water.
‘Endure!’
Escaping now would accomplish nothing.
Su An reluctantly withdrew her gaze and looked at the exquisite packaging box.
A cerulean wristband was soon fastened around her fair, beautiful wrist.
The porcelain-white skin complemented the wristband, while the band served as an ornament for her skin.
Su An reached out, her eyes shimmering with a faint light of curiosity.
A simple wristband looked this good on her; if it were a piece of magnificent jewelry, would it not be even more beautiful?
‘Wait, no.’
Su An pulled her hand back.
‘I am a man. I am a man.’
‘I cannot have such feminine thoughts.’
‘It is all the fault of my programming. Yes, exactly.’
‘I need to stop letting my mind wander and hurry up and look for information!’
Su An fumbled with it for a while and discovered that the wristband was essentially a high-end version of a smartphone that projected its screen into the air.
Su An could easily use it like a large tablet.
However, just as she opened the familiar Thousand Degrees search engine to start her search, her slender fingertips paused in mid-air.
‘Will Gu Yu check my browser history?’ Su An hesitated.
She did not want Gu Yu to suspect she was a Deviant Android and secretly turn her over to the authorities. After thinking about it, Su An enabled “Incognito Browsing.”
‘There, that is more like it.’
She nodded with satisfaction.
Truthfully, she knew she was just deceiving herself, but it was all she could do.
Perhaps this could even serve as evidence that she was a real human later on?
After all, no matter how much a model hallucinated, it would not abruptly search for several completely unrelated names, right?
[Su An]
She clicked search.
A pile of related content appeared instantly.
Scientists, celebrities, and athletes named Su An…
They all shared the same name, but Su An was not discouraged.
She had expected this, so she searched again.
[Su An, 2030]
Once these two keywords were linked, the content became highly relevant.
Su An scrolled for a good while before finally finding a report related to a car accident, and her spirits were instantly lifted.
“… According to surveillance, the individual named Su definitely suffered a full-on impact from a heavy truck. However, strangely enough, according to the subsequent police investigation, the victim’s body vanished mysteriously, leaving behind only a ground covered in blood…”
‘Vanished?’
Su An’s eyes widened.
‘How could it be a disappearance? Where is my body? Was it dragged away by a dog?’
Even though it was a small county town, there were surveillance cameras everywhere.
Did they not capture anything?
Su An bit her lower lip and continued to browse the related news and reports.
It had to be said that this engine was indeed powerful; it even pulled up comments from netizens on various platforms.
“Original Poster: I was an auxiliary police officer involved at the time. This case was truly bizarre. Under surveillance with no blind spots, the victim’s body just vanished into thin air.
First Floor: What about the truck driver? Could he have hidden it?
Original Poster’s Reply: No, it wasn’t him. Don’t go looking for conspiracies. The truck driver was a pitiful man who went bankrupt paying compensation. He surrendered himself immediately.
Third Floor: There seemed to be a small hill nearby. Was it dragged off by wild dogs?
Original Poster’s Reply: Dozens of us searched for half the night and found nothing. That is exactly why my memory of this case is so deep….”
‘How is that possible?’
Su An’s mouth hung open slightly, her eyes filled with disbelief.
‘Could it have been a murder?’
A chill ran down her back, and she felt as though her soul was turning cold.
‘Why?’
Su An did not understand.
She continued her search, but she could not obtain any more useful information.
Much of it was baseless speculation from people guessing for fun.
Some said she had ascended to immortality on the spot, while others claimed it was a Transmigration to another world.
Since no surveillance footage had been leaked, Su An could not determine what was true or false for the time being.
‘The police should have more detailed evidence, right?’
Su An furrowed her brows.
Was it possible that besides proving to Gu Yu that she was human, she also had to prove it to the police?
Would she really not be processed as a Deviant Android as a matter of course?
Su An’s mind was a jumbled mess.
A car accident, a missing body, arriving twenty years later, becoming an Android…
She could only rely on her own subjective judgment to make guesses.
Then, she suddenly gave a relieved smile.
Did it make a difference?
‘It makes no difference.’
The police had not found any clues, so how could she — someone who had simply closed her eyes and woken up here — find anything more?
Compared to this minor, possibly fabricated news story designed to catch eyes, Su An felt there was something more important in front of her.
[Ye Rufeng, Shudu]
This was her childhood friend, a very assertive “tomboy.”
Calling her a tomboy was a bit of a stretch because she was actually very beautiful; it was just that, relatively speaking, she was much stronger than the frail and delicate Su An and possessed a strong Sichuan spirit.
However, to Su An’s disappointment, most of what she found were celebrities with the same name.
She could not find any information pointing toward her childhood friend at all.
This made sense; twenty years had passed, and people and things had changed.
The only reason she could find her own case was thanks to the interest some netizens had in the cold case, which provided enough discussion for it to be searchable.
Failing to find information about her friend made Su An feel a bit lost.
Then, with a nervous heart, she slowly typed in three words.
[Su Ruxue.]
Her daughter.
Seeing her finger hovering over the search button, Su An’s expression flickered with hesitation.
She did not know what she was hesitating for.
Was it guilt?
Or fear?
Was she afraid that she would find absolutely no information related to her daughter?
She did not know.
But in the end, she pressed it; she had to face it eventually.
Normally, the first things to appear would be information about famous people with the same name.
For example:
“Su Ruxue: Champion of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Flying Shuttle Racing Global Finals, and the only Three-Crown Queen in history!”
Looking at the spirited, short-haired woman in the picture, Su An froze where she sat.
“Xiao Xue?”
Su An whispered the name subconsciously.